Re: Restoration of IAM datasets

Yes, I know what IAM is: A replacement for VSAM. But I believe it's built on BDAM and provides a VSAM API on top of that. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: Restoration of IAM datasets

whether some more might get replaced. Not knowing the IAM product particularly well, and being an employee of the maker of VSAM :-) , I have to assume Innovation have a method of managing these data sets. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking

Re: Any need? DFSORT interface to C language

I would argue you should expose the full function of DFSORT control statements if you can. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Any need? DFSORT interface to C language

Not following the link I don't know how you got to BP01 or PIPE but the first of these two (at least) sounds like a BatchPipes/MVS subsystem name. In fact it's the classic example name. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Any need? DFSORT interface to C language

If you can mimic in C / C++ what the JZOS DFSORT class does in java then that'd be good. I have personal experience of using it and writing up in a Redbook a while ago. It was certainly consumable. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking

Re: Any need? DFSORT interface to C language

to be pushed down from the C / C++ program into DFSORT. Perhaps all of it. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: Any need? DFSORT interface to C language

Note: You can't run DFSORT on zLinux. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Read SMF 119 records

By the way you're not nearly as anonymous as SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Anonymous might suggest to you. :-) Cheers, Martin (far from anonymous) :-) Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: Demonstrating Moore's law

Right: The conflation of miscellaneous speed up techniques is probably what keeps it going. As I present it's going to take more from installations / app maintainers to keep it effectively going - as there'll be less from chip- and system-makers (in all likelihood). Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: AW: Read SMF 119 records

Note: REXX reading VBS only became available with 2.1. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Setting CICS DSA Usage to 80%

be the usual CICS-centric question - and I agree with Lizette that CICS-L is a more fertile place for this discussion. (Not that I can answer THIS question but I also participate in CICS-L.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: JNI on z/OS

JNI code is NOT zIIP-eligible. For significant pathlength or frequent calling that probably matters a great deal. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: JNI on z/OS

Thanks Kirk! I did not know that. Might explain why CTG has such a high zIIP-eligible percentage. Note: The numbers as they happen are available in SMF 30 - for zIIP-eligibility and the rest, as well as what actually ends up on zIIP. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: CPU Time calculation based on RMF report

Use SMF 30 (2,3) Interval records. Most customers have this on - in my experience. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog

Re: Anothe DFSORT question (EXPMAX)

hiperspace). I've seen this scenario a number of times, often represented by the RMF interval-level Minimum Available Frames being near zero while the interval-level Average Available Frames is usually (but not always) somewhat higher. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: Paging configuration recommandation on modern Dasd.

For most installations your virtual-to-real ratio is way out of date. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: Paging configuration recommandation on modern Dasd.

Well, I like to see zero paging and, more than that, some spare real memory. What I don't much like to see is installations with tons of real memory and not exploiting it (where they could). For many the memory world changed with z10 and again subsequently... Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: Parsing (was: New way to do UCB lookups)

Except that Cyrillic is an easy alphabet to learn - at least upper case is. :-) And it's particularly sensible with its single characters for dzh, ch, sh, ts, ya etc. And German is sensible too, apart from the boot verb., :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: LPAR real storage size

This whole conversation fans the flames of one of my pet peeves: I've mentioned to Development in the past that people need better - in SMF - descriptions of memory above the LPAR level. This would be a piece of that jigsaw, I think. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: LPAR real storage size

That spreadsheet - in my customer set (that's all of you :-) ) - usually has a swear-word at the beginning of it, followed by something like Machine Configuration. A right old PITA to maintain. And on more than one occasion has proven wrong. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: OOCoD Question

. :-) In fact not suggesting ANYONE's do. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks

Re: Why would TRSMAIN end with RC=0 but not unpack the data?

Certainly when I get data from customers they might've used either TRSMAIN or AMATERSE and it still unpacks fine with either. This is something I do on a regular and frequent basis. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence

Re: Java Security?

, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Anne Lynn

Re: Mislocated doc (was: ... STOW Initialize?)

Isn't this just one aspect of how retrievability has changed since these titles were thought up? Without having specific proposals I think we (IBM and customers) should think it through. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

I think you're going to like them, Mark. Not that I've found a system to play with this on yet. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Submitting job name

The OP wanted SMF. The nearest thing - which might well be good enough - is the Userid / Group in Type 30. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: Submitting job name

A long time ago our code used to merge SMF 26 and SMF 30 - because we inherited it from SLR base table support. I'm wondering if there's enough value in doing that again. Someone on the team rewrote our code, dropping the merge (probably wisely). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: Rejoice! z/OS 2.1 addresses some long term JCL complaints from here:

I think it would also make job cloning easier. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

Not saying you're wrong but OSX is based on Unix. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Defined capacity

Maybe he's just pointing out that IRD Weight Management and Softcapping are two separate concepts/knobs/dials. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: Improve LLA/VLF usage

As always EXCP counts in SMF records are a movable feast: They are what the access method wants them to be. :-) Type 42-6 is probably a better bet - and will give a guesstimate of bufferability from the cache statistics. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: DFSORT Weirdness

SYSEVENT treated Flash Express. Hoping this is useful to some of you, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future

storage management and hardware. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

in instream restriction is going to be significant. We're likely to parameterise things that look like clone jobstream number as well as some character strings related thereto. But for now thanks Peter for pointing out this restriction. It might affect what we do. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

There IS some information on reads versus write in 42-6. I'm hazy on the details but it could be useful with the what is Disc? question. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: SMF42 subtype 6 interpretation

Hi Al! Did it take into account Sync Rem Copy (PPRC and the like)? I don't even remember if PPRC had been released back then. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: MASPEGH? (was new JVM based language)

I think it's MASPEGHI. And as someone who tries to keep up with programming languages I'm not much the wiser. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: another question about TSO edit command

And in terms of data streams (Multi)Markdown is very much like that; The markup doesn't get in the way. So I use it for much of my writing. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: Mass updates to the WLM policy.

it - but this might be good enough for the OP. It is after all no secret the TLIB exists - and you could test with alternate TLIBs. But now back to reality. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584

Re: Hard Capping an LPAR

Not sure that addresses the licence cost issue. BTW hello Bobby! Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?)

Is this whole limiting number of DD's thing a (lack of) XTIOT thing? By the way I've thought for some time DFSORT needs a BUCKET ICETOOL operator like this. But perhaps as a sample it'd be good. How about it Sri Hari? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: Meet Cobol's hard core fans

customer up the learning curve, given they've been forced to neglect their systems and applications for so very long. I suspect quite a lot of consultancy is driven by that poise recovery dynamic. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Question regarding sharing of CF

You can't share a CF LPAR between sysplexes. You should define at least 2 CF LPARs. And you should avoid - if at all possible - having CF LPARs sharing ICF processors (unless you really don't care about performance). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: Question regarding sharing of CF

observed. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: z/OS IEASYSxx memory parameter values

- as getting it wrong can seriously affect stability. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: IBM C compiler substituting for macros inside literals?

So tell me, if one wanted to achieve this apparently non-standard effect how WOULD one go about it? Not that I want to but it HAD to be asked. :-) Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: FTP of EBCDIC file

Not knowing who the authors were, is it possible they were explaining REXX to (what they thought to be) a CLIST-literate audience? TSO/E 2.1 would've been a shock to some. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: SORT JCL

Without wishing to appear a die hard defender of DFSORT :-) I would expect DFSORT's I/O speed to be better than that of a program (even with decent Sequential File tuning). But that quite possibly DOESN'T matter. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

Lots of Unaccounted For time in DB2 and no zIIP? If DB2_Version = 10 might be a quick win to add one. Though not, of course, free. But Unaccounted For time in DB2 can be many things: Waiting on CPU is one but another fave is paging. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

to a max of 6 with 3090E was quite a big deal. And from 6 to 8 (and then to 10) with 9021 likewise. Now we add handfuls at a time. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: What address space is using AUX slots?

television in the past week. :-) Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: Setting a proper CICS MXT Value

One approach is to set it high and then gradually lower it, checking for time spent in Wait For First Dispatch versus Wait For Subsequent Dispatch in Monitor Trace. A bit labour- and data-intensive but reasonable for a relatively accurate answer. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: AW: Re: MEMLIMIT not honoured by DB2 utility job

Isn't DSNX9WLM the program for DB2 Stored Procedures server address spaces? And not a DB2 Utility program? Might have some bearing. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: AW: Re: MEMLIMIT not honoured by DB2 utility job

DB2 MEMLIMIT for DBM1 is 4TB - according to SMF 30 (and John Campbell). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: System vs. user ABEND codes

And the former has the PIC in plain view in. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: WLM

Type in the Report Class in the panel. And to the OP: It's Workload and within that Service Class. Just to tighten up your terminology: Welcome to the steep part of the learning curve. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Dasd Consumption Report

In answer to a different question (memory purchased) a customer once said we ask our (IBM) salesman. :-) Equivalent? :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: Kenya Power Taps IBM Real Time Data Solutions, Selects zEnterprise

Note mention of z/OS rather than zLinux. Yay! Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Sort to show differences in a 2-file match

I'm wondering if the OP actually wants some commentary like at line 1234 in File A there's no match from File B. I know Billy didn't say that but... Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: What are STC, JOB and TSU?

Don't forget ASCH and OMVS. And for 7-digit Ids expect to see eg J1234567. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: WLM in batch?

Would XML suit you? It's what I do in Batch from the ISPF TLIB. I'm not sure whether to write up what is an undocumented and unsupported technique. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: WLM in batch?

Actually I sort of already did: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/playing_spot_the_difference_with_wlm_service_definitions?lang=en Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802

Re: WLM in batch?

I'm not a WLM developer. I'm hoping someone who is will answer that point. If not we'll have to raise a requirement. Sorry, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: WLM in batch?

This was also an interesting (related) thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/1bnhG_--Zzc Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: VLF Caching

We stopped asking for SMF 41-3 LONG ago: The result for LLA was always the same. We're more or less stuck with double it then double it again if things get better. Not sure how we'd tell if things actually DID get better. So the exits route is good for the very curious. Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: VLF Caching

Well I obviously haven't learnt much in the last 9 years. :-) Or, more positively, at least I'm consistent. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: LPAR IPL order within a Sysplex

Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Elardus Engelbrecht

SYSSTC1 and SYSSTC2

for opinions. And display my ignorance. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Ancient IEFUSI

Well I, for one, am jolly glad people are examining their IEFUSI exits, particularly in the area of MEMLIMIT. It's something I've been advising for quite a while... Cheers, Martin From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 09/12/2014

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

obliged to reply.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

See, I told you it was an interesting problem. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767?

On VSAM I suspect it's 32K-7 bytes. The 7 for a CIDF (for the CI) and a RDF (for the one record you could stuff into a 32K CI). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: MIPS, CEC, LPARs, PRISM, WLM

and PR/SM but generally not. Such interactions include if IRD Weight Management is active. And I see you already have several other answers - so it looks like you came to the right place. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: MIPS, CEC, LPARs, PRISM, WLM

Sounds like you also need to familiarise yourself with how DIST works - meaning enclaves that run the actual DDF SQL. As I say, unlikely DIST itself but rather more likely the DDF is in play. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

If you're lucky... Sometimes it's just zeroes. :-) GDAR, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

And I prefer (but am not consistent with) data set as in a set of data. And usually I don't actually mean a set of data. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: MIPS, CEC, LPARs, PRISM, WLM

Enclave SRB (part of TCB as it's Preemptible-Class). I'm just aware that this would in my experience (FWIW) be a first: Non-enclave in DIST being a problem. But life is full of firsts. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Slushware

I suspect returning to that level of frankness would get you into machine instruction timings - and all that goes with it. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: z13 unanswered question.

There is no BC machine... :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks

Re: z13 unanswered question.

Or zeeSerious or zoss or zedoss or zeeoss - all of which I've heard many times over. :-) Or even zee oh ess. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: z13 unanswered question.

By George I think he's got it :-) - as I hope did many others. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: AW: Re: SMF RDW

BSAM is used by DFSORT for Extended Format Sequential access - to name but one quite large use case. (And to get back to the thread) it copes with Spanned VBS records. I'm sure other products do, too. But I think the OP's curiosity is well founded. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: Health Checker and SMF

This is an interesting question. One thing - and I'm not sure a check could check for this - that I find occasionally is different SMF intervals on different systems. If they're related (as in collected into the same performance database) summarisation can be difficult. Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: IBM’s reorg-from-Hell launches next week - Cringely

That sounds like commenting on rumours. :-) And that's all you'll get from ME on that subject. Maybe. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: Compile COBOL Programs In 64 Bit.

A reasonable question to the Original Poster (OP) is what are you hoping to achieve with 64 bit? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Boston - what a place

Cauchy has a lot to answer for by not convincing TPTB (The Pythons That Be) :-) of the correctness of his Integral Theorem. :-) Cheers, Martin (perhaps a tad overcaffeinated) :-) Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: R: z10 BC LPAR Capping question

You MIGHT be. :-) That's why I posed my suggestion of DC more as a question than a prescription. It turns out there's no choice. :-( Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: (My) John Ehrman Assembler Book

And through the wonders of Twitter and Facebook I can tell you my tweet/posting of the link to this fine book garnered a bunch more expressions of appreciation. Cheers, Martin From: Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 09/02/2015 19:09 Subject:Re:

Re: z10 BC LPAR Capping question

Not sure. But would a Defined Capacity limit for the LPAR work instead? (Or better?) That certainly can be done - and I've seen it occasionally in my customer set. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: LE Question

More likely IEFUSI or similar. Hiperspace is NOT in the 31-bit (or 64-bit) memory map. That's the point of it. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: LE Question

I wonder if Data Windowing Services is still around. I vaguely recall they used Hiperspaces (still perfectly valid but mapped to Central). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: LE Question

Hiperspace came along about 22 years before 64-bit ANYTHING, let alone 64-Bit Virtual. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: LE Question

Doability when you don't have a chance to do 64 Bit. :-( :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Sharing a zIIP

Yes, but a key question is should we share a zIIP. An answer is often practically not. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: FORTRAN reverse engineering

Can't answer your question but it reminds me of a long-standing conjecture of mine: I wonder if compilers plant idiomatic machine code - from which higher-level constructs can be garnered. I would expect optimising (prefer improving) compilers would defeat that. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: Steps for diagnosing a S378

Let me show my naivete here... ... I normally search in a dump on RTM2WA. Is this different? And if so why? Cheers, Martin (still learning, I hope...) :-) Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: DFSORT SYMNAMES for SMF records

. Probably not what you want to do. I firmly expect 60 - 66 to be in the stuff is in variable positions category. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: Performance question - handling of max CPU % utilization

Agree with the stacked graph of LPARs. But one plea: Do it by processor pool for (at least) GCPs and zIIPs. (IFLs might be meaningful, ICFs less likely, zAAPs possibly.) Which takes us away from one number. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide

Re: DFSORT and RACF

Just this week I had a discussion with an IBM specialist supporting a European customer where the companion topic of stopping sysprogs from subverting SMF records came up. Protect the data is the key. And SMF 15 might be useful for tracking updates. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

As a Redbooks author I'll take a percentage. :-) TGIF. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

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